Cinnabaris
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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General
Mercuric Sulphide Mercurius Sulphuratus ruber For certain forms of ciliary neuralgia and ulceration upon a syphilitic base, this remedy is most effective. Sleepless during night.
Modalities
Worse, lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side).
Head
Congestion to head; face purple red.
Eyes
Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain in bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids granulated; canthi and lids red.
Nose
Pressive sensation, as from heavy spectacles. Pain about root, extending into bones on each side (Aur; Kal hyd).
Throat
Stringy mucus passed through posterior nares into throat. Dryness of mouth and throat; must rinse the mouth. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat.
Male
Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily; testicles enlarged; buboes; angry-looking chancres. Syphilides, squamous and vesicular.
Female
Leucorrhœa. Feeling of pressure in vagina.
Extremities
Pain in forearm from elbow down, including hands. Pain in long bones when barometer lowers; coldness of joints.
Skin
Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Nodes on shin-bones. Buboes. Condyloma, easily bleeding.
Relationships
Compare: Hepar; Nitr ac; Thuja; Sep. Antidotes: Hepar; Sulph.
Dose
First to third trituration.
What the other books say about Cinnabaris
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Cinnabaris in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Cinnabaris in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Cinnabaris — General. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/cinnabaris. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.